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Feasting on Thanksgiving
In a week, most of us in the United States will gather as family and friends around a table and share in the lavish feast we call Thanksgiving.The tradition of setting aside a day to give thanks...
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The Search for a Better Pleasure
Desire is a tricky thing. It has the power to lead us either to a throne or a tomb, to slavery or freedom, to true joy or mirages of satisfaction.The war of faith and desire began in the Garden. In...
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The Local Church and the Supremacy of Christ
Membership in your local church is one of the most important things about you.The local church is the greatest, most profound collective of which any human could be a part. Your family, your career,...
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Mom Enough (New Book)
Are you mom enough?Time Magazine forced this question into the face of every mother with bold letters above a cover image of a young mother breastfeeding her four-year-old. When the issue hit...
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Worship Is an Act of Reversal
The gathering together of the church for worship is an act of reversal; it is an act of reversing our loves.Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “We don’t go to church to worship, we come to church already...
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Help to Increase Your Thanksgiving Appetite
When it comes to cultivating gratitude, we need all the help we can get. As I wrote last week, thanksgiving does not come naturally to sinful people. Grumbling and disputing comes natural (Philippians...
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Mark Noll’s Memoir: World Christianity, Historical Thinking, Humbling Paradox
Historian Mark Noll has written more than a “personal memoir” narrating his pilgrimage from his non-pugilistic, “genuine all the way down,” Cedar Rapids, Baptist fundamentalism to his nuanced,...
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Holiday Expectation Management
It’s the most wonderful time of the year— or is it?Thanksgiving is upon us, and Christmas just around the corner, and with this coupling come lots of expectations. For years I wrestled with how to...
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14 Best Books of 2014
At Desiring God I cherish being surrounded by co-laborors and online friends who treasure great books, and who eagerly celebrate and share the most noteworthy titles as they come along.In 2014,...
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Thanksgiving: Gateway to the Holidays
Many nations have special days for giving thanks. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is always the fourth Thursday in November.Wherever we are in the world, there are at least two requirements for...
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How to Fight Lukewarmness
As we give thanks to God for his “abounding faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6), it is good for us to examine our own faithfulness. How faithful are we? This is important because “it is required of stewards...
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The Pilgrim’s Progress (New Edition)
On November 28, 1628, in a quiet cottage nestled within the English parish of Elstow, during one of the most tumultuous times in the country’s history, John Bunyan was born.The place of Bunyan’s birth...
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Christian Mission in a Post-Christian World (Interview)
This ain’t your momma’s America. The societal change in North America, and Western Europe, in the last generation has been remarkable.Secularism has been on the rise. Church attendance has been down....
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Put on Your Priestly Robe
I have a strange habit when I’m driving. Any time I suddenly come up on the familiar outline of a white and black sedan parked just off the shoulder, my right foot instinctively withdraws and I...
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Have You Heard the Church’s Story?
The local church is a community of Christians who live as the on-the-ground expression of the supremacy of Jesus by advancing his gospel in distance and depth.This is a basic definition for what the...
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Be an Advent Gift of Encouragement
For most of us, Advent is not a season of peace. It’s an extraordinarily busy, often stressful season. That is not necessarily a bad thing.The first Advent was certainly anything but peaceful. It began...
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Joy to the World
Shane & Shane have released a new album, A Worship Initiative Christmas. Because of Desiring God’s partnership with the Worship Initiative, you can download Joy to the World for free.The Gospel of...
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The Underbelly of Revival? Five Reflections on Failure Among the ‘Young,...
Editor’s note: We wrote to D.A. Carson and asked, “Do you find that the thrill and euphoria of being part of something that feels like revival may serve to dull the senses in some? Has the ‘success’ of...
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Four Impulses at the Heart of Desiring God
Holiday seasons and turning points in life are good times to marvel at the providence of God in our lives. For me, tonight, that means marveling at the existence of Desiring God and what God has made...
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Make This Christmas Unforgettable for Your Children (One Simple Tip)
My happiest Christmas memory is the time each year that my aunt Nancy directed my cousins and me in a reenactment of the nativity. The youngest among us — a girl — was always baby Jesus, and as Mary,...
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